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Conclude 2011

2011-12-31T14:00:00.006+08:00

A year which is very much occupied.

Started on my part-time U studies in July, together with work, is draining.

Lucky for me that Dad picks me up after school... <3 and helps me catch bugs too. :DD
And whenever I thought of the dishes made by Mum at home, it simply helps me get by any difficult times in the day. :))

Have been missing meet ups and gatherings here and there... sometimes so much so that a weekend without anything just gets so precious.

Still cherishing times and moments with people I care and love, especially Mum & Dad.

Extremely happy about Kym winning Best Variety Show Host this year. :D

Got an exclusive contact no. (Hehe)

Very... erm. Forgetful year. Had been leaving things in office... colleagues had been helping me Kio Sai. HA!

Accidents happened to people around me. =/

Made a decision on a new venture related to my studies.

Finally got my FT in Nov after much time waited.

Done a lot online shopping (because it just gets so convenient!) that I need to just stop!!

Experienced a new form in job.

Starting to love travel shows and sometimes documentaries.

Am grateful for the kindness from the people around me. And so,

Wishing you all a great 2012 ahead!
May Happiness & Wellness stays with you!

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Going for countdown later on!

The new year.
Working harder. Making changes.
Hoping for less worries.
Wishing for more happies.

The world is not gonna end in 2012, because I say so.

Also looking forward to the LNY Movie - 龙众舞 by idols!

December terror

2011-12-08T23:36:00.006+08:00

A busy busy... busy month.

Studying and working with the busy schedule we have now... is really.
Waking up at 530am almost everyday, 3 consecutive days of class till 10pm... on some days that I don't have class, work ends at 630pm (if on time)... and working on Saturdays as well. Weekends doesn't mean anything man.

I'm missing those times that I can go home straight after work!~

Not been using the computer much... I mean, ok it's an ironic statement here. I do use the computer ALL the time, but at work. Not when I'm home... which can be seen from how much I blog these days... Don't really have the time to catch up dramas too! >.

Am just waiting for Christmas to come, not becuase of the pressies or the occasion. But for the compulsory block leave days that we all have to take. The time when I would really have a break.

I guess this would be one of those times that I wonder how I strive through, so I better record it down. Heh.
Had a revenge sleeping last Saturday, slept 12 hours, wake up to eat, and go back to sleep for another 4 hours. Been a long time since I did that. The last time... was probably after the Exams & Projects in Poly days~ Haha!

Ngor Wei Deng Ju Ga!~

Anyway, enjoyed editing idols' show*... 'cos I was given the chance to piece it to the style and pace according to my feel, and watching it today makes it all awesome. Watch it roll! Woo!

oh OH OH! How could I forget. Amidst all these happenings, there's one great thing.

I'm a FT as of 25 . Nov. 11. :D

*SMRT Challenge 2011

The Stars

2011-12-08T22:34:00.009+08:00

Wow. Been almost a month since my last update.
Singapore Hit Awards was great 'cos I get to hear LIVE singing from the awesome singers~
Especially impressed when Ding Dang sang 我是一只小小小小鸟!

Olivia's voice was soothing...

and Sun Yan Zi! Superb and even better!

and Derrick! He has improved a lot in his showmanship! Can dance, can play piano, can sing!

Got to hear Hu Xia sing 《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》's theme song too~

It was a night of great music! Enjoyed it!

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And of course, the last month was also a book affair 'cos Bryan launched his book - Come Fly With Me, all about his travel and experiences.

The book launch was a very personal and nice
session 'cos all the readers got to sit beside him and watch him signing on the book, then take a picture with him!

Then there was Kym's 名厨出走记 (Love on a Plate) book launch too. The chefs and her shared the little interesting happenings during the filming of this dedicated and well-received programme.

Remember to grab yours at any Popular bookstore! :P
(Oh but those doesn't come with autograph though... =x)

11.11.11

2011-11-11T23:11:00.001+08:00

The Ones date.
'One'-ted to post up some photos taken last weekend but ended up not being able to find the cable. :(

Will be a busy weekend, I mean, week ahead... I shall strive through with all the work plus fun that comes along! Excited much.

Shall update when I come back from watching Singapore Hit Awards 2011 again! WOOHOO!
Stefanie Sun!

October shock

2011-11-03T19:26:00.002+08:00

This October has not been very peaceful...
Shocking news struck me in the last couple of weeks of Oct... Hoping and wishing all is and will be well for everyone.

天有不测风云。人有旦夕祸福

Do take care everyone, for you know you are important to not just someone, but many, including me.

I shall look forward to happier months ahead! :)

Reminisce

2011-09-12T00:25:00.013+08:00

Realised that I have put my blog in 'cold storage' for almost 2 months now... without any posts in August! Actually there are things to be remembered about...

Like on 9 Aug, our house was 'celebrated' with the colours of red on our doors, not because of National Day, but because of our neighbours. =/ Core of the problem is still not resolved, and they are gonna move out soon, but what will happen to us??

And on 17 Aug, which we had to vote for the new president, it is my 1st voting for presidential election too... and I also drove independently to school, to colleague's house and back home! Quite an accomplishment! Hehe... but I'm still quite hazardous...

Ha! And in September, I have completed going through the course of one module...
and finally the release of this!

It's A Great Great World

Bought it on Saturday, after our oktoLIVE reunion.... the reunion brought back so much memories and laughters and misses...

Talking about how we Farm-Villed together, rushing to collect each other's golden eggs laid by the chickens, how I SMS Jov my FB password and ask her to help me harvest my strawberries at 2am... how we calculated the timing to cook on Cafe World so that we can serve the dishes when we got back to office after our LIVE show... how we visit each other's zoo in Zoo World everyday to get coins...

how we gossiped and laughed and worked and played all in that little cozy hot-desk room, played our 'Feeding Game' with Megs, e-mailed each other to ask if we want to lunch or go buy snacks together, check with each other at least twice or more to confirm the email we are going to send to boss & external parties...

how we are the free-est the day before our LIVE show because everything was prepared...

how we struggled through the last episode of of our LIVE show with 25 music tracks, lots of VTs/Supers to playback, lots of people to handle... in just a half an hour show. HAHAHAHA...!!

It was, it was... lots of beautiful memories that I, and all of us missed.

Just like, I think, how this movie has brought for the older generations. Watched it for the second time, still as heartwarming and funny! Love it much!

Hoping for a series to it. Shall watch the movie again with director's audio commentary tomorrow!

Study

2011-07-18T16:34:00.002+08:00

It's finally here. The start of 3 years.

The start of something which I haven't been doing for almost 2 years.

I hope time flies like they used to be.

I hope I can.

I hope...

Starhub TVB Awards 2011

2011-07-17T15:52:00.007+08:00

《巾帼枭雄》摘下5奖

　　《巾帼枭雄之义海豪情》是最牛的电视剧，共摘下5个奖，包括当中最大的奖——我最喜爱TVB电视剧集。
此外，该剧的邓萃雯也获得“我最喜爱TVB电视女角色”奖，
黎耀祥夺“我最喜爱TVB电视男角色”奖等。

More info >>

Need I say more? WAHAHAHA!! It is the best HK drama that I've seen and I'm totally in support and proud of their win! :D

If you haven't watch it, you should!

It's been 4 years!

2011-07-07T11:13:00.004+08:00

4 years! And counting now! For managing my blog!

Realised that my blog posts has been decreasing for the past year as the months go by... no more schooling life... pictures everyday. But oh well. School will be starting soon, but it will be a total different one from Poly.

I shall soon be a part-time student and a full-time worker... though... I still can't picture that going on, it will be happening in time to come! I will be losing much of my free time... my freedom~~~! :(

Hopefully, I'll be able to manage!

It's scary how time flies and some people don't age

2011-07-05T00:00:00.008+08:00

The Day

4 July
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AHAHAHA. Do you belong to the category of my blog post title?
Hehe :D

Thanks to all my fellow editors, producers and ADs for celebrating my birthday for me!

"HOOO!"

3 July
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Pressies from cousins and relatives & Wai Po. :))

And a seafood feast with family!!

2 July
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Celebration with my dearest poly cliques!
Thank you all the time!

Thank you all for this great gift!

1 July
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With Jie Meis!

Headed down to a bar preview at RWS upon the 'summon' of my Xiao Yi and met up with them. :D

This is the Nth times we are celebrating birthdays together, and thank you dearest Jie Meis for the birthday wishes on the personalised card! :DD

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It was consecutive mini, simple and nice celebrations from the start of July! Hahaha...

All in all, thank you all, everyone, for your well wishes, for taken your time and effort for my birthday. I'm very appreciative of it all! I feel so loved. :D
Thanks Mummy and Papa for always remembering my birthday and showering me with all the attention that I need. HAHAHA :P

Thank you everyone. ♥

Happy Birthday to my dearest Idol - Kym!

2011-07-01T21:02:00.003+08:00

Happy Birthday Kym Jie!

Stay beautiful, young and bubbly as always! :D

Happy Birthday!

喘

2011-06-24T01:12:00.001+08:00

The 2nd time I'm feeling 'Chuan' during editing... Big operation process for a programme that went through M & E (Music and Effects), and to be TX (Telecast) the next day.
It's too complicated a process to relate in details here... so well, it's all done and it's all fine now. *Phew*

Been pretty much doing on fun programmes recently...
A picture preview to next week's WAS guest!

and the following week's!

Wednesday, 8pm on Channel 5!

1 Year...!

2011-06-01T22:31:00.004+08:00

This is by far, the longest time that I've stayed on the same job.
The last 365 (and a quarter) days flew really fast. It feels like it wasn't too long ago when I started on this job! I could still remember many moments when I started out like a noob. Hahaha...!

One year... and counting!

Will be a challenging year ahead with an additional task to tackle besides working.

I am still pretty much enjoying this job... just that... I have to save like squeezing a juice-less orange on the no. of leave which I can count with both my hands...

Oh well. Happy 1 year working (on the same job)! =x

And I realised I broke my blogging record. I only had one entry last month! Horrible.

Singapore Elections 2011

2011-05-07T21:44:00.002+08:00

I am one of the youngest and official first time voter for the Singapore Elections 2011! :D

Excited and looking forward to the results...!
Counting down...

Star Awards 2011 Show 2!

2011-04-25T02:42:00.046+08:00

Here's the update w photos! (Updated on 29 Apr, Fri)

Introducing the Best Actor/Actress and Best Variety Show Hosts nominees!

And the default presenters for Star Awards
- Guo Liang & Quan Yi Fong!

Best Info-tainment Programme & Host award presenters
- Nono & 阿布

It was quite shocking for me (and I think a lot of people) that Behind Every Job didn't win... but what we didn't expect for a greater shocker was the next one. With the Best Info-tianment Host award presented, the whole disappointment mood sets in, which is quite a spoiler at the start of the show.
The most important thing at any awards show is that, the win has to be 实至名归.
Well. Judge for yourself.

Best Current Affairs Presenter - Dong Du Hua (News Queen!)

Best News Anchor - Lin Qi Yuan (Like finally he won it! Haha)

Best Supporting Actor/Actress award presenters
- 温升豪 & 王传一

Best Supporting Actor - Terence Cao

Best Supporting Actress - Pan Ling Ling
(Bingo my 2nd choice!)

Both of them waited for 2 decades for the affirmation in their acting! T-w-e-n-t-y years! That is really long! It's good to see veteran actors getting their deserved recognition in Star Awards in recent years.

The talk show by Mark & 曾国城.

Mark acting angry that he didn't win Best Info-tainment Host and 城城 consoled him first then turn around & 'shoot' him. HAHA!

Their talk show revolved around the drama and variety productions for the past 1 year and gave a 'review' on them. They have really good rapport!

Best Variety Programme/Best Variety Show Host award presenters - 邰智源 & 阿雅

Love on a Plate (nomination VT)
- Chef Charlie: "Aiya, 我来啦, 你的手这么短!"
- Kym: "你可以打我, 你可以骂我, 可是你不可以污辱我!"
HAHAHAHAHA...!!
Everyone in the ballroom was in laughter too!

One of the unique ways to pass the winner list to the award presenters

It was really a tough fight for this category but... Love on a Plate emerged as the winner!
(Bingo my 1st choice!)

The anxious moment came... I was excited and nervous too!~

The nominees!

Kym is the ultimate winner for Best Variety Show Host!
Receiving it once again since 12 years back! 实至名归. :)
(Bingo my 1st choice!)

All the chefs are up on stage with her!

It was quite amazing because last year when I was still an AD, I was sitting beside the table of this EP, where I overheard that the upcoming SSS (at that time) won't be hosted by Kym 'cos she's flying everywhere for another programme... then I was wondering what programme was it...
then till I know that it was for Love on a Plate...
seeing it in Edit (when I just became editor),
watching it on TV,
witnessing now that the show and the host has received the awards... wow.

Congrats Kym! So happy for you! :D

Best Variety Special award presenters - 曾国城 & 姚元浩

Best Variety Special - Star Awards 2010 Show 1 (As I expected!)
(Bingo my 1st choice!)

Best Actor/Actress award presenters - 林家栋 & 邵美琪

Best Actor - Qi Yu Wu
(Bingo my 2nd choice!)

Best Actress - Rui En (YAY!)
(Bingo my 1st choice!)

She finally won it!

Xiang Yun receiving the All-Time Favourite Award!

I was very touched when I first saw the VT montage of her past winnings in Star Awards, and there was also a very memorable quote in one of the years which she said:
"曾经有一年, 有人说是因为打错我的电话(十大最受欢迎)，我才得奖，嗯。听了有些难过。不过谢谢你们用这么多年来证明，这是个美丽的误会。"

Congrats to Bryan for getting Top 10!
And the orange suit is striking & spells Style with a capital S!

Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award presenters
- Nicky Wu & Fann Wong

The Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes
(8/10 bingo)

Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award presenters - Mike He & 阿雅

Quite disappointed by the list of Top 10 for Female Artistes. (9/10 bingo... TSK.)
Hai. This award is 可遇不可求...

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Anyway, here are some photos of happy moments at the awards show!

My idols!

The 3 buddies at the post-party!

The funny chefs sharing Kym's joy!

The really adorable & beautiful cake the chefs made for her!

And here's our Best Variety Show Host of the Year! :D

There's gonna be 3 of her shows premiering in the upcoming week!
The Sheng Siong Show 9 - 30 Apr, Sat @ 8pm on Ch 8
Chef Apprentice - 2 May, Mon @ 8pm on Ch 8
Show Me The Money - ~~5 May~~ 12 May, Thu @ 830pm on Ch 8

I love attending Star Awards! =x Especially when you can witness your idols receiving it!

Star Awards 2011 Show 1

2011-04-19T19:18:00.001+08:00

Brilliant skit. WAHAHA...!! I laughed so hard at the skit spoofing local drama Breakout!
They really made me (and also everyone in the theatre) clap my (our) hands and laughing at the same time every other moment!!

It was just so superb of them to poke fun of the 'argument' between GuoLiang and Elvin Ng last year, with Guo Liang spoofing Elvin Ng's character and WAAA... HAHAHAHA it's just hilarious when he came out, and even using quotes from Elvin's thank you speech for the night. =x
Yi Fong was just as crazy mimicking Jeanette Aw's 'Yang Nian Qing'. LOL

The opening with the various scenes from the different dramas and variety programmes with VO of the hosts of the night was funny and nice too!
And I realise Kym's VO imitating 'Yang Nian Qing' was quite similar to how Jeanette did!

A job well done by the team! :)

Catch it here if you have missed the fun!

Woo! The exciting Awards Show 2 is on this coming Sunday, held at the RWS once again!

Pretty much excited! Hoping for what I wish for to win. :D
Vote for the deserving pair for Top 10 Most Popular Artistes Award!

Star Awards 2011!

2011-04-13T11:19:00.002+08:00

Vote for them!! (Top 10 Most Popular Artistes)
Bryan: 1900 - 112 - 2009
Kym: 1900 - 112 - 2024

Jia You Jia You!!

Yay!~ Going to watch both shows 'LIVE' at the TV theatre (Show 1) and RWS (Show 2).
And what's more is that Show 1 will also be hosted by my 2 idols! :D

Happily in anticipation! 4 more days!

Broke...

2011-04-11T23:03:00.002+08:00

my previous record.

13 hours editing with 1 hour break in between. Haha!

孙燕姿 -《是时候》

2011-04-02T03:08:00.002+08:00

孙燕姿!!

Her album 《是时候》 is finally out... (like finally I change my phone), after 4 years!
Ya it's really 是时候.

Her autograph session on April's Fool was really, seriously, packed. Singapore fans were actually a minority there, not that she has little local fans, but there were more... other nationality ones.
It was so irritating when people push and squeeze and cut queue all the way to the front (when we were already ZERO proximity between one another), what's more lean on you with their whole body, resting their arms on your shoulder taking photos as if it's their tripod.
Totally *stare* and *roll eyes* at them.
Talk about us being Kiasu. There are other people who can take on this title as well.

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The photos may be deceiving as in, it seemed like we were so near, but not lor. I zoomed so much that the pictures has so much 'noise'. And look at how far YanZi is looking.

But all the wait was worthwhile as she talked a bit and sang 《愚人的国度》 LIVE~ was hoping she sang 《当冬夜渐暖》! It's such a beautiful song with a little sadness, optimism... all elaborated in the lyrics, and the melody is so catchy that you would definitely like it once you listen to it!
PS, KF and my favourite song!

Oh but 《愚人的国度》is a very nice sad song... the MV was just released yesterday, and after I've watched it... I feel that... it's so superb! YanZi's performance inside this MV is really great! And you can't help but feel for her! Go watch it and you'll know!
The MV is very well done and very matched-up with the lyrics. :)

And when PS and I went up the stage to get her autograph, we planned to tell her that we are Singapore fans, she was smiling to us as she sign on the albums, and PS went
"我们不是_ _ _ _ _ _ _", then for that split second I could see the look in her eyes went totally blank. HAHAHA... think she was new to that term, then anyway,
I told her "我们是你新加坡的歌迷!"
and she smiled with the brightest smile and replied, "真的吗?"
And I *nod nod*. WA~~~ *HAPPY*

It's so great that she promised to sign all the albums regardless of how many each person brought up (which was mentioned only when the signing was going to start...), just that cannot re-queue (which means don't need the hassle to re-queue to get another/other album(s) signed)!

But we had only one. It's good enough. :D

The songs in this album is really worth the buy.

iPhone 4

2011-03-12T18:25:00.001+08:00

After four and a half years with my never-say-die and forever surviving after numerous falls Sony Ericsson K800i... it's time to let it rest.

Finally. Changed phone (yesterday)!

Here's my iPhone 4 (side-by-side with my old pal)! YAY!

But it'll take 3 - 5 working days for my data plan to be activated... so...
wait. till. I. download. the. apps.

It'll be probably another years to go for me to change phone... haha. 'Cos before my 4 & 1/2 years Sony Ericsson, I used to have a Samsung one for about 3 years. =x

Studio Recording - It's a Small World

2011-02-22T23:48:00.001+08:00

It's really great to laugh out loud. Like madly. It kills the sleep bug and hypes me up!
Recording of It's a Small World was indeed hilarious...! Too bad duration and some stuff are not allowed on air.

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Local audience readily accepts the (similar) content on foreign shows but not on ours.
Why?

I am (and have) always (been) pondering...

This is the case for a lot of our programmes.

Voicing out an honest an objective opinion, sometimes censorship department are stringent in censoring some stuff... because that's what if allowed on air, audience complains, and if it's censored, audience complains too.
So, what do you (really) want?

Happy CNY!

2011-02-18T11:54:00.000+08:00

Chinese New Year is over! But the big excitement is not!
Toto $10m (accumulated to $11m now) Ang Bao opens tonight! Have you bought your luck yet? Hehe.

Here are photos during CNY!

Reunion dinner

CNY Lou Hei of the Editors!

CNY visit @ Jane's house

CNY visit @ Chee Beng's house

CNY visit with sisters!

There were more but didn't take photos at all! This year is the year which I went for the most visiting! And of course the returns are more than the past! HAHA!

9.30 tonight. HUAT AH!!

Star Awards 2011 Nominees!

2011-02-07T19:40:00.006+08:00

The annual star-studded event 红星大奖 is coming soon again!
And the nomination list is out today!

I shall start with my favourite awards first. =x
in RED is 1st choice
in BLUE is 2nd choice
in Green is 3rd choice

Best Variety Programme 最佳综艺节目:

Dream Potter [梦.窑匠]
Food Source [食在好源头]
Gate Keepers [小兵迎大将]
Going Home [回家走走]
Love on A Plate [名厨出走记]

This 5 variety programes are really a tough fight man... OH! Suddenly realised that Black Rose is not inside! That show is so funny!! But anyway... this one it is either Love on a Plate or Food Source... But I shall root for Love on a Plate!

Best Variety Show Host 最佳综艺主持人:

Bryan Wong 王禄江 [Home Decor Survivor 4 摆家乐4]
Guo Liang 郭亮 [Black Rose 爆料黑玫瑰]
Kym Ng 鐘琴 [Love on A Plate 名厨出走记]
Michelle Chong 庄米雪 [Black Rose 爆料黑玫瑰]
Pornsak [Food Source 食在好源头]

HA! This one! Mostly are whom I had expected to be nominated. You see. Michelle is being nominated in this category, it makes her in just an awkward situation like Dennis Chew last year. Their nomination is not for HOSTING. It's for comedy performance, no hosting involved! I would rather categorise them under Best Comedy Performer. And for Guo Liang... I didn't realise that he was being nominated for Black Rose also... which I feel, will put him in an infavourable position just like Michelle.
This award should be between Kym and Pornsak.
Of course I'm rooting for Kym! :D

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Best Variety Special 最佳综艺特备节目:

Renci Charity Show [仁心慈爱照万千2010]
Star Awards 2010 [Show 1] [红星大奖2010 亮闪八方]
Star Search 10 – Grand Finals [才华横溢出新秀总决赛]
Thong Chai Charity Night [同济医院慈善夜]
Thye Hua Kwan Charity Show 2010 [太和观一心一德为善乐]

Best Info-ed Programme 最佳资讯节目:

Behind Every Job [美差事。苦差事]
Food Notes [上食堂]
Legendary Cuisine [传说中的料理]
The Activist’s Journey [仁心侠旅]
Tuesday Report – 3 Days 2 Nights [星期二特写: 三天两夜]

Best Info-ed Programme Host 最佳资讯节目主持人:

Belinda Lee 李心钰 [Stars For A Cause 2 明星志工队2]
Bryan Wong 王禄江 [Behind Every Job 美差事。苦差事]
Mark Lee 李国煌 [Behind Every Job 美差事。苦差事]
Guo Liang 郭亮 [Legendary Cuisine 传说中的料理]
Joanne Peh 白薇秀 [The Activist’s Journey 仁心侠旅]

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Best Drama Serial 最佳电视剧:

Breakout [破天网]
New Beginnings [红白囍事]
The Family Court [走进走出]
Unriddle [最火搭档]
With You [我在你左右]

Unriddle [最火搭档] is definitely my cup of tea! It's by far, the best and probably one that I stayed to watch every single episode!

Best Actor 最佳男主角:

Christopher Lee 李铭顺 Breakout [破天网]
Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 Breakout [破天网]
Qi Yu Wu 戚玉武 [The Family Court 走进走出]
Shaun Chen 陈泓宇 [Your Hand in Mine 想握你的手]
Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉 [The Family Court 走进走出]

Best Actress 最佳女主角:
Joanne Peh 白薇秀 [Your Hand In Mine 想握你的手]
Jeanette Aw 欧萱 [Breakout 破天网]
Zhou Ying 周颖 [Breakout 破天网]
Rui En 瑞恩 [With You 我在你左右]
Chen Li Ping 陈莉萍 [Unriddle 最火搭档]

This award has definitely got to go to Rui En 瑞恩 already please. She should have won it like 4 years ago in 破茧而出! I thought she would have been nominated for her role in Unriddle though... but she was very good in With You 我在你左右 too.

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Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角:
Andie Chen 陈邦鋆 [Precious Babes 三个女人一个宝]
Darren Lim 林明伦 [Breakout 破天网]
Terence Cao 曹国辉 [The Best Things in Life 五福到]
Yao Wen Long 姚玟隆 [The Family Court 走进走出]
Zzen 章缜翔 [Unriddle 最火搭档]

Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角:
Ann Kok 郭舒贤 [The Family Court 走进走出]
Cynthia Koh 许美珍 [Happy Family 过好年]
Lin Mei Jiao 林梅娇 [Breakout 破天网]
Pan Ling Ling 潘玲玲 [Breakout 破天网]
Xiang Yun 向云 [Unriddle 最火搭档]

Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲:

Breakout [破天网] – 网/张信哲
New Beginnings [红白囍事] – 在我左右/龚芝怡
The Best Things in Life (五福到) – 知足/苏智诚
The Illusionist [魔幻视界] – 变化/何维建
With You [我在你左右] – 感.受/黄智仁

I feel it's Breakout [破天网] – 网/张信哲 vs The Illusionist [魔幻视界] – 变化/何维建.
I'm more positive about the latter 'cos the lyrics and music complements the story better.

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Shall skip the next 3 awards 'cos it's hard to determine and I didn't have special impression of any Young Talents this year.

Best News Presenter 最佳新闻主播:

Lin Chi Yuan 林启元
Tung Soo Hua 董素华
Wang Zheng 王征
Zhang Haijie 张海洁
Zhao Wenbei 赵文蓓

Best Current Affairs Presenter 最佳时事节目主持人:

Chun Guek Lay 曾月丽 [Focus 焦点]
Tung Soo Hua 董素华 [Money Week 财经追击
Desmond Lim Soo Guan 林树源 [Good Morning Singapore 早安您好]
Iriana Halim 林有懿 [Good Morning Singapore 早安您好]
Lim Yi Chyi 琪琪 [Good Morning Singapore 早安您好]

Young Talent Award 青苹果奖:

Fraser Tiong Kah Kee 张家奇 in Happy Family [过好年] as 董成龙
Grace Ng Xin Yi 黄馨仪 in The Best Things In Life [五福到] as 琪琪
Jerald Tan 陈杰乐 in Breakout [破天网] as 小振锋
Kaylar Ong Zhi Wei 王子薇 in With You [我在你左右] as 薇薇
Regene Lim Yong Yi 林詠谊 in Happy Family [过好年] as 董成凤

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Best Director 最佳导演:

Chong Liung Man 张龙敏 [Breakout 破天网]
Edmund Tse 谢益文 [Your Hand in Mine 想握你的手]
Leong Lye Lin 梁来玲 [The Best Things in Life 五福到]
Loo Yin Kam 卢燕金 [The Family Court 走进走出]
Wong Foong Hwee 黄芬菲 [Unriddle 最火搭档]

My guess should be Wong Foong Hwee 黄芬菲, but Chong Liung Man 张龙敏 stands a high chance too.

Best Screenplay 最佳剧本:

Ang Eng Tee 洪荣狄 [Breakout 破天网]
Chen Sew Khoon 陈秀群/Lau Chin Poon 刘清盆 [With You 我在你左右]
Ng Kah Huay 黄佳华 [The Family Court 走进走出]
Phang Kai Yee 彭凯毅 [Unriddle 最火搭档]
Seah Choon Guan 谢俊源/Yeo Saik Pin 杨锡彬 [New Beginnings 红白囍事]

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Best Variety Producer 最佳综艺编导:

Gan Bee Khim 颜美琴 [Dream Potter 梦.窑匠]
Glen Lim 林祥平 [Star Awards 2010 (Show 2) (红星大奖2010]
Jean Toh 卓金云 [Star Search 10 – Grand Finals 才华横溢出新秀总决赛]
Kang Lay See 江丽丝 [Love on A Plate 名厨出走记]
Tan Boon Chong 陈文聪 [Food Source 食在好源头]

Best Variety Research Writer 最佳综艺资料撰稿:

Hon Sher Ee 潘雪忆 [Food Source 食在好源头]
Lim Kar Yee 林嘉仪 [Dream Potter 梦.窑匠]
Loong Li Li 龙俐利 [Star Search 10 – Grand Finals 才华横溢出新秀总决赛]
Teo Kim Kee 张琴棋 [Love on A Plate 名厨出走记]
Wong Eng Hong 王应鸿 [Going Home 回家走走]

Again. Difficult choice.

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Skipping this one too.

Best News Story 最佳新闻报道:

Chan Wai Hoe 陈伟豪 [Focus: Flash floods Stain Singapore 焦点: 新加坡水淹三重奏]
Eugene Lim 林锦成 [Frontline: Changi Beach – camping site for the homeless 前线追踪：浪人的故事]
Grace Yang 杨晓红 [Focus: 100 Years of Charity Service 焦点: 百年行善广惠肇]
Leck Chye Peng 陆彩萍 [Frontline: The Swollen Leg Auntie 前线追踪：象腿婆婆不领情?]
Yap Li Ling 叶莉凌 [Frontline: Monkey business 前线追踪：猴闹民宅]

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Best Programme Promo 最佳宣传短片:

Danny Loh 罗文杰 [The Little Nyonya – Encore Telecast 小娘惹重播]
Ho Chong Jin 何宗锦 [Don’t Forget The Lyrics All Stars 我要唱下去! 名人版]
Liew Lee Ming 刘俐敏 [The Illusionist 魔幻视界]
Ng Wan Churn 黄婉琛 [New Beginnings 红白囍事]
Ong Wan Jun 王婉君 [Gate Keepers 小兵迎大将]

I remember the first time when I watch The Little Nyonya promo, I was very impressed by it! The one that gave lots of slaps and with the tagline of 赢得了很多掌声. It was good!

Best Costume & Image Design 最佳服装与造型设计:

Annie Chua 蔡宜君 [Star Search 10 – Grand Finals 才华横溢出新秀大决赛]
Mark Chua 蔡锦福 [Lunar New Year Eve Special 2010 普天同庆金虎年2010]
Stella Tan 陈玮婷 [Gate Keepers 小兵迎大将]
Xu Ying Ying 徐盈盈 [Black Rose 爆料黑玫瑰]
Xu Ying Ying 徐盈盈 [Breakout 破天网]

Black Rose's image design was very good 'cos every look is just like the actual people they are impersonating!

Best Music/ Sound Design 最佳音乐与音效设计:

Gao Jun Wei 高俊伟/Thong Meng Sum 唐明心 for The Family Court [走进走出]
Long Soo Ming 龙淑明/Teng Kim Lian 陈金莲 for With You [我在你左右]
Long Soo Ming 龙淑明/Zheng Kaihua 郑凯华 for Breakout [破天网]
Thong Meng Sum 唐明心/Teng Kim Lian 陈金莲 for The Score [无花果]
Zheng Kaihua 郑凯华/See Tiong Meng Burtt 施忠明 for Unriddle [最火搭档]

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Best Editing 最佳剪辑:

Cynthia Chia See Sun 谢素珊 for [Love On the Plate-Chef Eric 名厨出走记(EP10)]
Eu Chuin Fang 余群芳 for [Dream Potter 梦.窑匠(EP3)]
Jane How Lee Chern 侯莉真 for [Lodge With Me – Felicia Chin 我行我宿(EP3)]
Lin Wei Jie 林伟杰 for [Star Search-Regional Hunt 才华千里寻星(EP1)]
Low Lee Lian 刘丽莲 for [Life Transformer 2 心晴大动员 2 (EP10)]

Whoo! Congrats to all colleagues! Many of us had the feel that Cynthia would be the one... but good luck to all anyway, may the best editor wins! :D

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Want to try your how accurate is your prediction?
Let's play by this,
RED - 5pts
BLUE - 2pts
Green - 1pt

(If only 1 choice for 1 award and got it right - 10pts)

I had been rather accurate in my prediction for the past few years if you look back at my SA prediction entries! Hoho!

Telecast on MediaCorp Channel 8

Star Awards 2011: Sunday 17 April, 7pm ‘LIVE’

Star Awards 2011: Sunday 24 April, 7pm ‘LIVE’

Telecast on MediaCorp Channel U

Post Show Party: Sunday, 24 April, 10pm ‘LIVE’

It's A Great Great World

2011-02-01T16:05:00.019+08:00

Yay gonna go watch It's A Great Great World later on!

~~Will be back to update! :D~~

Oh and P.S: I've put back the tagboard thing!

Updated on 4 Feb

Usually movies with lots of promotions will push up your expectation of it, and most of the time it will fail you, but It's a Great Great world is one that didn't disappoint me at all!

The story flows very well from one (era) to another (era), and I feel that the use of photos to relate to each story of the past of Great World is a nice idea because photos was the only way to retain the memories in the past, and some of the photos were the original ones.

And I must applaud for the efforts of the crew and director - Kelvin Tong for putting up the movie set as similar as possible of the original Great World because the only way they could refer to the looks of it was only through (black and white) photos, and colour-wise, they had the reference of the elders who had been there before.
Papa had thought some of those were original stuff!

The Ghost Train is one that is really able to function electronically and not pulled by the crew!

And Kelvin Tong being the expert of filming horror films/movies, I was highly anticipated during the Ghost Train scene and of course it was superbly done especially at the end part of the Ghost Train ride. It was a LOL scene but rather scary too! HAHAHA...!!
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Every story had the humour that belongs to it, and also parts which will move your heart...

Although I don't belong to the generation that had grew up together with the place - Great World, but I could also feel the emotional ties of the generation with Great World. Maybe that's because I always immerse myself when I watch a movie/show that could take me along with their story. I enjoy being engrossed in a story.

What's more is that there are 4 stories in this movie.
The 1950's - Hui Ge,

Hui Ge is really funny himself... his gong-gong and simple character of wanting to take photos with big stars to make his mum happy... in the end. HAHAHA it's really hilarious how they manage it in the end. But I thought his story was rather short compared to the rest.

1960's - Joanne Peh and Zhang Zhen Huan,

Ghost Train is a big selling point 'cos it was the scene that made the whole theatre laughed LOUD! And the Teochew rhyme of Ah Nan is hilarious too!

But Zhang Zhen Huan's Teochew is a pain to listen to. HAHA

Chew Chor Meng's Teochew rhyme for his lok lok is like another laughing point added!

1960's - 1970's - Xiang Yun and Huang Wen Yong,

This story's focus was on Xiang Yun waiting for a promise to be realised from a man 10 years ago... Then when this man appears... everyone in the cinema went "whoa...~" HAHAHA...!!

It was definitely a right choice to make her the focus of this story because her acting is undoubtedly fantastic. You feel for her.
And the songs are catchy~ It's still ringing in my head every now and then, especially with the promos on TV on and off. Ha!

1940's - Kym, Bryan, Chen Shu Cheng and Marcus Chin.

This story is unique in its own way because it was where the most dialects were used! Teochew, Cantonese, Hainanese... Wa... and it was hilarious at the conversation between Bryan & Zhang Yao Dong with Marcus Chin, it's the Hainanese vs Cantonese battle. HAHAHA...!!

And I'm amazed at the fluency of Kym in Teochew and Cantonese...!

I feel that this story was one which everyone spoke rather accurate dialects!

And it starts off from the modern era - 21st century, with Chew Chor Meng relating these stories. The thought of how the effects were created (split into 4-screen and dissolve from one to another then change to another scene after the 4 screens were dissolved) when Olivia was driving to go look for him went through my head while I was watching... haha!

The reason which he explained why Great World was closed down... was the same as what Papa said. And you couldn't help but feel... that some changes are unavoidable, and these changes... are kinda sad.

The movie would leave you with a smile at the end.

And and! If they are thinking if It's a Great Great World 2 is possible, I would like to believe so because each of the stories could have a further development... especially the last one, where the Japanese came... then the relation of the generations could go in chronological order as the characters grew older... how they could link with the characters in the 1960s and 1970s...

It's a Great Great movie! Mummy and Papa enjoyed it very much too!
Relatives were going to watch today too! Shall ask how they felt about it tomorrow. :D

As far as I know... It's all sold out for today at Cathay AMK Hub! And almost all sold out at GV Vivo... as well as almost full house for the next few days at quite a no. of cinemas! Woo! Congrats!

This movie is a must-watch for families in this happy occasion!

Oh and if you are wondering if you could try on those rides in the movie, you can visit one which they set up at Hougang! It's functional! I think it's beside Hougang mrt or something? It's like a funfair.

January conclusion

2011-01-31T22:07:00.001+08:00

It wasn't really a good start of the year for me, this month.

Had been pretty busy juggling with many things which made me quite irritated at the beginning... missed the film [When Hainan Meets Teochew] (- $10) I wanted to watch, in a dilemma of which course to choose for Uni (and still am... but not that undecided now), missed my idols at the heartland malls... :(

But some of the things sort of balanced the -ve. Like meeting up with the oktoLIVE! team,

the premiere of It's A Great Great World [大世界] (And I'm definitely not gonna miss this at all!),

and being able to see 黎耀祥! (Still... I was hoping that I was able to be there when Bryan & Kym was at the roadshows promoting 大世界...)

Oh well, this month still ends on a good note 'cos it's Bryan's birthday month. :)

This photo made my day too!

I don't feel that CNY is coming... but still... hoping for a great Chinese New Year ahead.

Happy Chinese New Year to all of you too!

Sharing pictures of some of the new plants at home:

Before

You won't see the after 'cos this plant died due to too much watering from Mum... hahaha...!

Before

After

Before

After

This bonsai bloomed later than the previous one but the colours were nicer!

Oh and I thought I should share this picture of the pussy willow too! It was the nicest bloomed one that we ever bought home to grew!

400th post! Happy Birthday Bryan!

2011-01-30T00:00:00.004+08:00

It's my 400th post! Woo!

And Happy Birthday to my idol Bryan!

Hai. Sadded. I should be at one of the roadshows for the movie - It's A Great Great World (大世界) yesterday... but I couldn't make it 'cos of some work to do and... =/ What a pity. Both my idols were there!

Being my most anticipated movie of the year, I should have already watched it by this time! But I'm waiting to watch it with my parents... (hopefully on CNY eve) 'cos it will be a most meaningful way to enjoy the movie as they can relate those memories and share them with me. :)

But I don't mind watching it a 2nd or 3rd time, 'cos I'm sure it will be a Great one! There are many good reviews about this movie too. :D
So anyone? =x

Went to watched SDZ performance at SP which Lum and Steph were involved it! It was rather good! Steph and Lum's dance talent is awesome! And hearing Lum's singing once again is so wonderful! Her voice is a big WOW and should be heard by everyone! Great job to both of them!

Wayne Lai 黎耀祥

2011-01-25T21:45:00.002+08:00

黎耀祥 - 红蝴蝶 (巾帼枭雄主题曲/义海豪情插曲)

It's so great to hear him sing this song LIVE! I didn't even think that I would be able to see him so soon and that near, and to be able to hear him sing this song is... WAAAA!~~ I love this song so much!! It injected so much emotion especially for 《义海豪情》!

Sorry that my camera was tilted down at 01:27 - 01:30 'cos I was looking at him and didn't realise my camera was not. HAHA...!!

His interview... super hilarious.
Take special notice during 02:12 - 02:43 (SO FUNNY!!)
and also 06:40 - 07:12 (Whereby he talked about who are the casts involved in 法证先锋III)

My favourite HK actor!

TVB stars

2011-01-22T23:11:00.005+08:00

Cannot resist but bought this (quite a few days ago) in the end. HAHA!
And comes to great use today 'cos got to play it!

Got this for free because of my 'service'. =x

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Went to see HK artistes today! Wa. First time specially went to see HK stars, and it's so great this time because it's just at CWP!! :D
Wayne Lai (黎耀祥) totally rocks 'cos he is so funny!!

黎耀祥 says Hi to everyone!!

杨思奇

钟嘉欣

Laughing Gor (谢天华)

His cute 招牌笑容 (Signature smile)

Wayne: "很多人都说我真人比在电视上还要 "sui" (帅)啊, 是不是啊?"
Everyone: "是!"
Wayne: "你们真老实! 很有眼光啊!"
LOL!!

And Wen Hong (the emcee a.k.a. 100.3 FM DJ) told Wayne: "是啊他们很老实的。我问他们黎耀祥帅不帅? 他们说很帅, 我问那他高不高, 他们说，不高。"
HAHAHAHA...!!

So funny!~

Surprisingly his mandarin is quite fluent among all of them. :D Hopefully he will go on our variety show someday~

Xing Gor (醒哥) smile!

All 4 of them. The best shot that I can take 'cos being short is such disadvantage at such times...~

How nice!!~

Burlesque™

2011-01-15T14:18:00.003+08:00

Amazing dance numbers, fascinating moves and fantastic voice.
I was so mesmerised whenever they started dancing and singing~ they stage presence is so captivating and... and it was like watching a concert, except that it was up-close and every scene cut to the beat of the music and dance moves, which makes it all interesting to watch!
You would definitely marvel at Cher's and Christina's singing. They are just so so powerful!

People who love and enjoy dance and music should watch this.

Burlesque™ is definitely worth your time and money.

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That aside, I finally got a chance to land my hands on the much talked about - Monopoly Deal™ card game, with Sam, Jov, Dex, Flo and Ying.

It's a more strategic game than the usual Monopoly™ board game we used to play, you can say that everyone turns 'ruthless', 'scheming' and 'heartless' when they are in the game because you have to in order to win! And that makes it very fun because your brain and attention gets all engaged during the game! The Monopoly Deal™ ends faster than Monopoly™ too, so it won't just be a monotonous throwing of dice, buying properties, building house/hotels and collecting rent until a player turn bankrupt...(or sometimes don't have to be entirely bankrupt) then everyone gave up and keep the game. HA!

It's not that difficult to get how to play the game though, 'cos I won at the 2nd game. =x
I feel like getting a deck now. HA!

Happy 2011 !

2011-01-07T11:25:00.005+08:00

Last trip of 2010 - to Ubin!

A must-have picture at the Jetty =x

This photo is so We-are-happy-travellers!

Finally arrived at Ubin!

The pretty cat-tails behind!

They struggled to cycle up the slope, gave up, and push the bicycle up. HAHA...

Parking our bicycle and walking in to Chek Jawa

Pretty cottage-looking house

H-TWO-O has to pay me advertising fee for this picture!

The blue sky, white fluffy clouds...

A 'Thousand-year-old' scary looking tree

A 'thousand-year-old' scary looking woman and tree

On the 'Max. capacity: 20 persons' viewing tower

A very beautiful pond with green waters! (though it doesn't appear so here, but it is!)

All shagged and 'heaty'!

Along the way... we saw the little creatures that liven up the out-of-city mood!

The hog is really quite cute... :D

My favourite crabbies~

PB-alert!! Your fear is appearing the the next picture!

I totally love the out-of-city feeling! I want to travel overseas~

Later that very night after Ubin trip, PS and I went to watch fireworks!

Video here:

Never knew watching fireworks so up-close is such a wonderful and happy feeling!

Happy 2011!

Goodbye 2010!

2010-12-31T00:18:00.009+08:00

Last post of the year!

Last trip of the year - to Ubin!

And 30th Dec was the last day I ever had to hang the Triangle probation plate!

Woo! Will be back to update!

Goodbye 2010! Happy memories there had been. Hope for an even better year ahead, not just for me but for everyone too!

Belated Christmas Celebration

2010-12-29T01:48:00.002+08:00

On 27 Dec 2010

This chubby kawaii baby here shares the same birthday as me! Only 5 months+ old now!
WAA~ cute!!

See the comparison. WAHAHA!~

Gift exchange at Lewis' house warming, got this from CF. :)

Had these rounds of gaming on Wii... so exciting and fun man! I always enjoyed playing Wii!~ I get so familiar with the device that my colleagues thought I own one at home when actually I don't, I just play it when I got the chance at friends' house. HA!
Playing Wii Sports (Resort edition) was so hilarious! The canoeing and swordplay game was very tiring but made everyone (playing or not playing) laughed hysterically!

I want to own a Wii!~

My arms were aching after badminton on Sunday... and it's aching even more badly now. LOL

Gift exchange with Poly mates

A conversation that made us all "AIYO!!~~" in unison
Waiter: "So how's the food?"
Flo, Jov, Sam: "Ya, not bad (or something along that line)"
Waiter: "Is it me or is it the food?"
Sam: "We haven't tried you yet"

AIYO right?! HAHAHAHA...!!

And Ying asked all of us about desserts, then Aileen pointed at the waiter who walked past, and say: "There, dessert."

HOIYO! Tsk tsk tsk. These women. Drunk from juices.

My gift from Sam :)

Oh and went shopping with Mum today. Yay~ Rewarding trip! Mum and I got new clothes.
And this sweet! It was/is my one of my favourite childhood sweets! WAA. LOVE it. Melts in your mouth in a couple of seconds~

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T00:34:00.005+08:00

Merry Christmas!
Have a great time today!~

Gonna have loads of celebrations and meet ups in the coming week! Yay! My 'holiday' is almost fully booked!

~~Be back to update!~~

Back to update! (29 Dec 10)

4 hours of singing for 4 person... sing until~

The presents received! PJ's from PB, KF's from me, PS's from HP

Mine from PS, PB's from KF
and missing from the picture is HP's from RW and RW's from PJ

It was really shocking when we tried to recount the number of times we celebrated Christmas together... there's been at least 6 or 7 years that we've kept it going and it's... "DID WE CELEBRATE THIS OCCASION SO MANY TIMES?!" Wa...

I should start digging out pictures of those years of presents that I received or gave out...

Merry Christmas!

and Happy (finally) 21st Birthday to RW!

Make a wish~ Make a wish~

My present from PS - Tony Moly's erm... some facial cream. Thanks PS!

KF and I had this addiction going on whenever we meet... to speak in a certain language that we are not proficient in and try to act like we are a pro in it. HAHAHA!! Laughed non-stop trying to speak in (struggling) Cantonese and replacing words we don't know with English/Hokkien/Mandarin. See. We are multi-lingual! =x

It's A Great Great World in cinemas 27 Jan 2011

2010-12-13T19:58:00.011+08:00

Waa... many meet ups and gift exchanges coming soon! YAY it's a wonderful month.

Oh yeah, Derrick's album will be out this Thursday!

And another thing to be happy about - 大世界 (a.k.a. It's A Great Great World) will be out in cinemas on 27 Jan 2011!
YAY!! It is my most anticipated movie for next year! =x

It’s A Great Great World is set in Singapore’s legendary amusement park Great World, which was also affectionately known in Hokkien as Tua Seh Kai or 大世界. Spanning the 1940s to the present day, the film tells the stories of a multitude of characters who lived, worked, played, sang, danced and fell in love in Great World.

Take a peek into the movie through the trailer below!

Language

2010-12-13T18:36:00.005+08:00

Producer C was saying that I speak Mandarin like those that Jiak Kantang. @.@!! Then when she popped by my suite the other day she told Producer M beside me, and M laughed, then I asked M, "真的吗? 有 mei? 有 meh?" and she replied with a chuckle, "Ya 有一点."

AHHHH!!! How can that be?! I asked Dad and Mum too, then Mum also said 有一点. Tsk.

I am not convinced~

TVB 万千星辉颁奖典礼2010

2010-12-07T00:42:00.013+08:00

YAY and Congrats to Wayne Lai (黎耀祥) and Sheren Tang (邓翠雯) being the consecutive winners for both the Best Actor (最佳男主角) and Best Actress (最佳女主角) award!!!

蝉联视帝视后!

It was so exciting watching their awards show 'cos the competition was so strong, and you won't know the result until the very moment when it was announced!
Their award presenters were entertaining as well! Especially 吴君如, throwing the winner list away without even opening it, then saying that she can guess it even if she don't open it, and announce the name "LAO XING!" (刘醒) (Wayne's character's name in 義海豪情) already! HAHAHA!!~ Wa... Kinda scary and awkward if what she announce was different from the one on the winner list!

"VICTORY!"

義海豪情 (a.k.a No Regrets) was no doubt the big winner for the night, winning Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (Evergreen Mak a.k.a 麦长青), Best Supporting Actress (Fala Chen a.k.a 陈法拉), but what puzzled a lot of people was that with all these winning casts, 義海豪情 actually didn't win Best Series!!

義海豪情 has created so much hype and broke many records, like having 99% of the audience watching their finale when compared to their 'rival' TV station (ATV), having millions, yes millions of views on myTV (similar to the 'Catch up TV' which we have here),

And having Wayne Lai and Sheren Tang both winning Best Actor and Best Actress for the consecutive year although they are not TVB's '亲生仔' or '亲生女' (contract artistes) also made a remarkable history of TVB Awards!
They are the first pair to have won this award for 2 consecutive years (with Sheren being the first actress to consecutively win the Best Actress award!)

And it is quite obvious they are doing the so-called "distributing pork" because Moses Chen (陈豪) was being given the 最佳专业表现大奖 'Best Professionalism' award (which came out of no where) when the much predicted award which he would win in - 我最喜爱的男主角 'My Favourite Male Character' award was given to Raymond Lum (林峰). And to balance the winnings between the 2 mega dramas of the year, Best Series was given to 公主嫁到 (a.k.a Can't Buy Me Love) instead of 義海豪情...

AIYA... It's kinda mixed feelings.

The ending for this award ceremony is like the ending for 义海豪情... Beautiful yet with some 遗憾. An 遗憾 of failing to compliment the efforts and contribution of the crew behind 义海豪情.

Nevertheless, the drama has won the support and love of many many audience even without the actual presentation of the award for them... because the story is superb, the casts were great, the main casts and the supporting casts, each and every one of them shines in their own character, and it is not difficult to see how much the people behind the scenes had put in to put up such a great show!

Let us 向義海豪情的幕后工作人员致敬!

巾幗梟雄之義海豪情 No Regrets

2010-11-29T20:00:00.000+08:00

I just finished watching it!
This is a really superb drama! I can't help but to exclaim how touching the ending was. :)

Expressing it in Chinese would be the best way to describe how I felt about this drama:
故事的铺排非常好，故事情节和每一个金句都有连贯性，而且是随着故事后部分的发展而一一带出来，让每一个情节都是相映着的。
主角黎耀祥 (祥仔 a.k.a. Wayne) 和邓翠雯 (雯女 a.k.a. Sheren) 把人物的每一份细腻的情感发挥得淋漓尽致，他们会把你带进故事里，让你的情感被牵引着，跟着他们一起感受和经历起起落落。
在那样的年代，刘醒和九姑娘这对生死之交似有似无的感情，互相照应，话中所连带的承诺，既简单又令人动容。

结局虽带些遗憾，但却是是感人的。遗憾或许也是一种美。

活要见人，死要见尸! 但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
这两句活都带有同样的意思，在各自的场面说，亦更具震撼。

别什么都想着别人，要为自己想。

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如果常看港剧的人一定会发现他们经常都有写日记这样的情节出现在剧情里。
“我不是很中意wor~” (HAHA!)
《義海豪情》也不例外，虽然间中写日记的部分拖慢了节奏(或许是缓和情节的发展)，但在最后部分在回忆时有着画龙点睛的作用。

祥仔和雯女的演技Hai Mo Tat Deng Gar! Ngor Ho Zhong Yi Koi Dei!
《巾幗梟雄之義海豪情》一部值得推荐的好戏，一定要看!

I am so in awe of their acting!
Hope they would win consecutively win the Best Actor & Best Actress award this year!

Update on MCS Family Day

2010-11-24T10:36:00.000+08:00

Hoho... Finally the update is here.
Sorry, had been too engrossed catching up HK drama. The server site is jamming as people (like me) are waiting to catch up on the next episode after HK side has telecast the night before. =x

I'll do a review on 溏心风暴之家好月圆 and 巾帼枭雄之义海豪情 when I complete the latter!

The Studio 6 experience of how drama shoot is like in a set.

XiaoYi answered one the the Qs correctly and receives her prize from Elvin.

Studio 1. One of the bigger studios for variety shows, and also the one which we used when we did oktoLIVE!

Here's a different lighting.

This picture is for Leen. =x

The carpark transformed into mini Pasar Malam.

JiaYing was so cute playing the Wii dancing game, the 2 guys who were in charged of the Wii couldn't resist but to take out their phones to take pictures/videos of her!

Special make-up. Guess which is the real one??

Haunted "house" tour...

Only listened to the ghost story of Radio Building, was expecting a journey along the corridor, but ended up came out and that's about it. =/ But the "ghost" lying at the side of the lane shocked me 'cos I thought it was only a piece of white cloth laying around. Heard that it would grab some people's legs. HAHA

My 'Twin' Sister - who is very mesmerised by Elvin Ng's smile. (HAHA) She set her mind on taking picture with him and gave up queueing to watch the 3D thing. =x

The whole family day was quite fun, if I were a non-media person, it would be an very interesting experience. Would have been great if there were interactive games like what the past Pasar Malam used to have.

It would have been more fun if I hadn't had to went off halfway for work...
Anyway, flight for XiaoZhu they all on that day was delayed, and I managed to get off from work earlier and go receive them at the airport... so, it's contra.

TVB

2010-11-23T11:55:00.002+08:00

Finally episode 25 of 巾帼枭雄之义海豪情 has been uploaded today!
Had been waiting since Sunday~! This ep was postponed due to their TVB anniversary last Friday... and so while waiting, I watched their anniversary show too... and it was quite fun and hilarious!

Their artistes all put up a performance no matter the young or the old, dancing, singing or putting up a skit to mimick some of the scenes from their top rated dramas, all of them seemed like a big family when the whole stable of artistes gather together on stage on that day, it was a great scene! And it was so fun to watch although I only understand like maybe 70% of what they say!

Their male artistes also cross-dressed to do their role-play in the skits, so does our local artistes, but our people seems to be critical whenever our local male artistes do that.

Alright shall go catch up on episode 25! YAY!

Gate Keepers 小兵迎大将

2010-11-16T07:57:00.002+08:00

Catch it tonight @ 8pm on Channel 8!

It's gonna be real hilarious. Confirm, Guarantee + Chop!
Watch it and you'll know!
WAHAHAHA!~

MCS Family Day

2010-11-13T01:55:00.002+08:00

Woo! It's today.
Had a preview of some of the set up.
Hope it'll turn out great later on!
Be back to update... erm. We shall see.

13 November

2010-11-09T00:06:00.004+08:00

It is MCS Family Day this Saturday and I'm working on that day. Woo! It rhymes!
Other than that. . .
4pm is Kym's appearance.
But work starts at 3pm.

Xiao Zhu and all are coming back on that afternoon as well.

Hai.

It is 13th, but not Friday!

Ready... FIGHT!

2010-10-31T15:18:00.004+08:00

Very happening yesterday.

Witnessed a fight between a Chinese uncle and an Indian young man.

Mummy wanted to pay for her pants but I told her I wanted to look at mine... and we went outside. Then we heard a quarrel going on at the corridor of the shop we were at.

The uncle questioned: "Why you touch my hand?! This is Singapore you know!"
Guy never answer but just stare at him, his girlfriend keeps pushing him away.
The uncle continued to repeat and scolded $#%@&! with "hand signals".
Can see that the guy is tolerating him, and his girlfriend told the uncle: "Enough lah uncle!" and pushes the guy backwards.
But the uncle didn't gave up. Then there was a few seconds of silence.
The uncle suddenly gave a huge push to the guy's girlfriend!
At that moment, my mind went: "Wa. Start liao."

Then of course the guy retaliate and punched the uncle, and then it was the moment of frantic. Everyone was tensed and tried to move further away from them. They were grabbing each other's head and trying to throw punches at one another, then they fell (or the uncle fell) and made rows of clothes fell too!

As the situation gets even fiercer, Mummy was pushing me away and telling me: "Aiyo 快点走快点走! 不要看了!" but she keeps turning her head back to watch!! And she was even more nervous than I was. She grabbed my arms so tightly! AIYO~

The guy then ran a bit further away, and the uncle raise the clothes trolley (the type that a lot of clothes are hung on a bar, and with wheels...is that how you call it?) and wanted to beat the guy. Tsk tsk.

Scary. The uncle's nose was swollen and bleeding.

Mummy and I went away for awhile first before going back to pay for the pants that she bought, and there were traces of blood on the floor as well.
Aiyo... tsk tsk. Fight over such small matters. It's not as though his hand is gold or diamond plated, it's not as though he is a WOMAN -.-! Maybe it was accidental? But the guy didn't explain or answer when the uncle questioned him too. =/

Watching a fight on-screen and off-screen is a huge difference. There is no 'I-punch-here-you-siam-you-punch-there-I-siam'. It was all a mess when a fight goes on. Haha!

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Anyway, then after settling stuff at Civic, while travelling down the escalator, I told Mummy: "哇，好像要下雨了", and when we reached the ground level we turned to walk the opposite direction, it started pouring!!

Which reminded me of a time at work when we go for lunch at the canteen, it was so bright and sunny and so hot. A few of the colleagues who came like 5 minutes later said: "Wa... it's raining heavily outside!" All of us were: "@.@! Raining?! It was so hot when we came!" Then when walking back to office after lunch, it was bright and sunny again, and the floors were wet.

It is quite stunning how weather can change so fast huh?
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Sheng Siong Show series is back with Kym tonight! Hoho!

HP's 21st Birthday Celebration!

2010-10-25T11:50:00.006+08:00

A belated birthday celebration for HP as she was in Taiwan for the past month (in army) and only came back on her birthday itself.

Got a reservation at the hot dining place - Porn's!

And here are the dishes!
First up, Green Mango Salad!

Very appetising and makes you crave for the next dish to be served!

Pineapple Fried Rice

Pornsak served this to our table with smiles :) The fragrance of the rice spreads through your mouth as you chew on every grain of it! Yummy!

And YES! The most anticipated dish of the night - Tom Yum Goong! There's two types - Seafood/Prawn. We ordered the Prawn one.

It's... fabulous! The spicy-ness is just right for me, but HP, PS and RW had tears welling up in their eyes! Haha... the word use to describe this soup is - Shiok!

Omellete with Prawn

The prawns are very fresh and Q, and blends in well with the egg. :)

Green Curry

Quite a heavy flavoured dish, thick coconut milk used. Not really my type. Still prefer the usual red curry we have.

Stir Fried Beef with Basil Leaves

This dish is good to eat with rice!

Fried Rice Cake

Crunchy and fragrant.
Makes a great snack and makes you want to crave for more!

Prawn Cake

I must say, their prawn dishes are really good.

Stir-fried Kang Kong

Not the usual 马来风光 that we eat at 煮炒, this one is not spicy and is fried with 豆鼓 and so gave it a slightly savoury taste. And you can taste the 火候 (heat) used to fry these vegetables!

Mango with Sticky Rice

Sweet cold mango with warm sticky rice, how does that sound?
It is just the dessert to complete a meal!

The overall dining at Porn's is great, with the service crew being attentive and responsive to your needs, and the food are value for money.

Just that I find the seating can be improved because it's all single stools, which leaves you no space for your belongings to be placed on except on your lap, if not, on the floor.
It would have been great if there were sofa seats and chairs with chair back which would then make seating more comfortable.
And probably they can offer bigger food portions at a different price?

If you are interested in dining there, better make your reservations fast because they are already fully booked for this and next month! But you can still try and ask what are the available slots they have and you may get one, just like us! :D
Click here for their FB page.

We had a great time catching up with each other and having cheap thrills by picking the polaroid photo which is requested by the 'gamer'. HAHAHA!~ We are good at self-entertaining.

And of course HP, hope you had a great 21st (belated) Birthday Celebration with us!

Oh and also, Happy Belated Birthday to 2nd Bro!

I miss SP

2010-10-22T18:44:00.015+08:00

Went back to SP today to get collect the Yearbook... and passing by each area reminds me of everything that we did during those days... so much fun and laughter and nice memories.

I really missed the times in SP... so much.

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On a side note, read this news about the haze.

Haha! We should rephrase that bit - "Thank them when there's good air."
We should "thank them when there is no bad air."

We are not even given proper explanation and how do we expect proper management of the situation from them?

Hazy

2010-10-21T17:37:00.004+08:00

Noticed the haze since Saturday and Mum asked where it came from, and I answered, "Where do you think it is except from Indonesia?"

Haze is getting very bad. Reached PSI reading of 103 @ 5pm already. Smelling bad too.
The haze is making everything seemed blurry and I feel like just sweeping it away! I miss the clear view~

=/ Take care everyone!

2010 . 2010

2010-10-20T18:28:00.002+08:00

A special date to note of.

Just wanted to post up an entry because of the date.

Editing has been pretty enjoyable so far and I felt pity when some funny stuff have to be cut away because of duration limitation! It can't be helped.. =/ Editing NCB always cracks me up! Hahahahaha...!! I shall look forward when my name appears in the same roller credit with my idols. HAHA!

Cut my hair today. - Noted. I always can't remember when was the last time I cut my hair and it just grew and grew and every time the hairdresser would comment: "Your hair is very thick."

Silver Lining #10

2010-10-18T20:02:00.004+08:00

Catch the 'last' episode which I was involved in for Silver Lining tomorrow @ 8.30pm on Channel 5!
(Also available on HD 5!) =x

You can also check out previous blog updates I had for Silver Lining!
(Click on the silverlining tab below!)

Changes

2010-10-15T09:08:00.002+08:00

The same things and people are revolving around you everyday, but have you noticed the changes?
Spend time to slow down your pace, and observe...

I wish changes were not that fast.

Silver Lining #9

2010-10-12T19:44:00.002+08:00

Catch it at 8.30pm on Channel 5 tonight and witness the 'imitation' of the infamous local press conference saga that everyone has been putting it into various shows!
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Show's over! Here's a crucial screen cap to recap your memory!

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See! And these props are my designs! HAHA

The 'Freeze-Dried Meat'

Siti's endorsement for Freeze-Dried Meat poster

TODAY's headline of food poisoning due to Freeze-Dried Meat 1

TODAY's headline of food poisoning due to Freeze-Dried Meat 2

TODAY's headline of food poisoning due to Freeze-Dried Meat 3

TODAY's headline of food poisoning due to Freeze-Dried Meat 4

This episode is one which required a lot of designing done for the props! HA!

10.10.10

2010-10-10T23:59:00.001+08:00

Xiao Zhu! Waha! He is still soooo cute!!!

He speaks in such a nice and gentle tone that makes him even more lovable!
He could still remember the way back to our flat even though it was already one year ago since he went back to Aussie! He is not even 3 years old yet!

He would go: "Gu Gu OW ah!" if you stop (or in his view - force) him to do certain things. HAHA
And Gu Gu means aunt (that's me). He would go around "OW"-ing people if he feels that they don't treat him well. hahaha... and that way of expressing himself didn't change 'cos he does that when he was younger too!

This was when I told him to SMILE!~ and he gave me such a cute one!

The couple of photos below shows him trying to "aim" before he throw the magnetic dart onto the board, and he does it the opposite way, looking, or rather winking both his eyes at the bottom of the magnetic dart rather than looking at the back of it and the board!

Nobody did that but he knows that he has to "AIM"! HAHAHA!!

Another of him showing me his wide SMILE!

When kids get together...

They play MAHJONG?!

Look at him WOW at the spilling water!

SPLASH!

He was trying to make his Kor-kor take off his shirt because he also took off his own!

His Kor-kor pressed his feet against the splashing water coming up from underground... and Xiao Zhu came along trying to imitate his Kor-kor...

Then there you go! Kor-kor runs away! Making the water splash into Xiao Zhu's face!! HAHAHA...!!

Ah Gong bringing Xiao Zhu crossing underneath the splashing fountain!

Cheeky boy

And this is when he was already rubbing his eyes trying to keep awake,
when I asked him: "Xiao Zhu 累不累?"
He replied: "不累"
Me: "要不要睡觉?"
Him: "我(pronounced as - "orh")不要"

Haha kids... always don't want to admit that they are tired. I hate to admit that I'm tired when I was young too! Whenever I heard my mum telling other people: "Yi Ai Kun Liao", I would get very angry and say: "MEI YOU!~" =x

And here's a few of my captures at Marina Barrage:

Xiao Zhu is coming back!

2010-10-08T17:37:00.002+08:00

My nephews are coming back tomorrow! EXCITED. It's been more than a year since I saw Xiao Zhu!~
As some things were cropped up which caused the delay of their departure from Aussie, Xiao Zhu actually woke up early in the morning and went to wake his brother up and tell him: "Kor Kor, 起来, 我们要坐飞机去找阿麽!"
Then when he realised they weren't leaving on that day and he has to go to the child care centre, he cried so badly!!
Aww... Ultimate cuteness & sweetness!

I can't wait to see him!

Taxi drivers' weird theory

2010-10-08T17:12:00.002+08:00

Yesterday went Ju Shin Jung with the Silverins and the way on the cab is really nauseating.

Oh before I talk about that, the meat served at Ju Shin Jung were quite good, and it will be hassle free for you because there will be waitresses to help you cook the meat! Kim Chi is wonderful-ness!~ HAHAHA!~
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Ok back to the topic,
The driver kept stepping and releasing the accelerator, making me nauseous!
At first I thought it was because of the traffic jam but then I realised it wasn't the case when he drove in the East Coast Parkway where the whole stretch of road was smooth and free of cars! He still kept on stepping and releasing the accelerator!
Lucky ChewYen has got some sweets with her, if not I would really have puked 'cos I was already breaking cold sweat.

Then ChewYen later told me that the driver is actually trying to increase the metre count by doing so in order to get a higher metre fare! What kind of nonsense is this?!
YOUR METRE COUNT DOESN'T INCREASE JUST BY STEPPING AND RELEASING THE ACCELERATOR!
Go and brush up on some common knowledge please.

Come on man.
Don't try to earn the so called "extra income" at the expense of your customers.
It doesn't matter what kind of job you hold, you will be given the due respect as long as you show professionalism.

Wait till one day I puke on your cab and then... that's TOO BAD!~

I want to visit It's a Great Great World movie set!

2010-09-26T12:25:00.001+08:00

I want to visit the set of It's a Great Great World!

Went there today but didn't alight to go walk around, got to see the '鬼火车' set only... saw the camera crew at a distance... wanted to alight to walk around and see but parents didn't want to~ oh well... I was afraid we might disrupt their shoot as well...

ahh...!!~ I want to see the whole set so much! It's always fascinating to see a drama/movie set!
The last time when I saw it was a drama set of a home setting in MCS, Jov, Ying and I was so excited over it! 'cos it looked real on screen and it's nice how they set up the place to be as similar as the actual ones. And oh one thing for us is that we tend to look into details of dramas/movies... and sometimes we are very picky over things like that. HAHA... so just enjoy watching your dramas/movies!

I want to visit the set of 大世界 so much!~

《大世界》 It's a Great Great World

2010-09-20T18:37:00.003+08:00

More details in this week's I weekly!
(Click on picture to enlarge)

Exciting! =x

《大世界》It's a Great Great World

2010-09-18T13:54:00.004+08:00

《大世界》It's a Great Great World

Click here and here for more details

Exciting! This new year movie will be up in cinemas next year! The most exciting part is the casting 'cos got Bryan & Kym! =x

“新传媒星霖电影与本地导演唐永健的Boku Film联手打造的贺岁电影《大世界》昨天已开始拍摄，影片除了汇集新传媒知名艺人，
包括白薇秀、林湘萍、周初明、向云、黄文永、张振寰、张耀栋、黄慧、蔡琪慧、杨志龙、钟琴、王禄江、陈澍承、葛米星、郑各评、洪乙心、郭亮和周崇庆等，本地知名喜剧演员程旭辉、陈建彬及港台演员薛家燕与曾国城也将齐齐现身。”

WOW!~ YAY! Very hyped up now.
I am already looking forward to the release! WAHAHA...!!~
All the best for the filming!

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AHAHAHAHA... Just watched New City Beat on xinmsn, must especially watch 21:10 - 21:45 part! The CGs, sound effects and their reactions match so well that it's hilarious! =x

Dates

2010-09-17T11:54:00.001+08:00

Yesterday, last year was the date that marks the start of my internship at MCS... and it's been a year now that I have been working there. From intern, to drama AD, to variety editor... Time flies. And I didn't expect myself to be working there for this long too.

Today, 6 years ago was the announcement of media merger, 6 years later, we are on the same day again - Friday.

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Just finished watching the whole series of 巾帼枭雄, the use of a very good story background - rice - an essential for everyone, especially orientals. And the portrayal of how women - a role that possess very low status back in the ancient empire, could also stand out and defend for what they believe in, which is how you derive at the drama's title - 巾帼枭雄 (Jin Guo Xiao Xiong),
巾帼 (detailed definition here) means Female
枭雄 (detailed definition here) means Hero
- which literally means 'Heroine'.

Great show! There will be 巾帼枭雄之义海豪情 soon! I shall look forward to the release!

Shall catch up on 溏心风暴之家好月圆! Haven't caught this one after 溏心风暴 long time ago. Hong Kong like to do a sort of like 'continuation' to their very successful dramas with a '之 ....' after the original title... haha! Aiya... but PPTV is always giving me chinese dubs...

Primary gathering

2010-09-10T19:16:00.001+08:00

Amazing hor. After soooo many years (a decade), we are still keeping in touch with our primary school teacher. And the last year that we visited her, her baby was only about 2 months old, and this time we visit her, her baby already can walk and recognise so many stuff! A very clever and cheerful girl! SO CUTE!

The way she smiled in this photo reminds me of one that I have when I was like this young... Haha!

And we once again saw the horrendous photos of our past. EEW. Oh but it's laughable. LOL

Pleasant supper with all the talking and chattering! I very 'Gian' that Ginger + Vinegar with dumplings... and recently I also very 'Gian' salads! I remember Starbucks got very shiok chicken salad! *DROOLING*

壮志骄阳

2010-09-04T11:54:00.009+08:00

Guess who sang this song?

I've been wondering how was the drama like when I heard this song last time... and yesterday got to saw it by chance. The 3 main leads are Ann Kok, Chen Xiu Huan and Lina Ng, a tennis-related sports drama.

Click the 2 thumbnails below to find out! =x

Unriddle 最火搭档™

2010-09-03T11:58:00.007+08:00

This is really a superbly well done local drama that kept my eyes glued and looking forward to the next episode every time!

The ending was rather unexpected and if you look back at it, everything makes sense as they have dropped slightly noticeable hints in between the episodes.

One that I've noticed was before it was revealed was this:

I wondered when Dewei says that Zhirong told him about the case 15 years ago... like "Why would he tell Dewei so easily just because he is a CID?"

And Ep 16:

It was quite puzzling to me for his 'sudden injury' which Xiaoman asked him about and he just said that he got hurt playing football... then I recalled seeing a scene probably in the opening song of him and Yuze struggling in a car...

And another one was this:

There was no reason for him to fire 2 shots at Andrew when 1 shot was already enough to control the situation because it was shot at the critical position...

But in the end it was still quite shocking because it didn't occur to me that he would be the one... Dewei always seemed like a person (like what Xiaoman says) with IQ below 85. Haha. Bangjun acted very well for this role.

I like how Rui En everytime geared up her fierce prowess and commands. Power!
A very good actress.

I gathered about Xiaoman's father's behaviour... Through the words they used:

and Thomas Kok's expressions before he died when mentioned of Xiaoman's father's name...
so it was rather a confirmation than a conclusion when Xiaoman finally learns about her father's doing...
And like what Xiaoman said, sometimes the truth is ugly...

It's brilliant to incorporate one big case while the other cases are going on. Nice.
Joshua's performance in this drama was excellent too, I was touched during the scenes of him and his Mum and the heartless Dad.
However the last case of the identity switch seems to be rather unnecessary and rushed.

It then dawn on me that we can also produce great police dramas locally based on past productions like the one that Xie Shao Guang acted in which he was a police and was the ultimate pervertic killer (I forgot the title), and 破茧而出.
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The ending of Unriddle 最火搭档™ made it seem like a possible 2nd season, and I hope there would be!
And I think they made the ending with Xiaoman going to a date probably to set the opening for the (possible) next season like the opening for this season (if you could recall) - Xiaoman going on a date with Yuze.
There were also room for more stories to be developed on as new character pops up, and the 'rivalry' between Dylan and Yuze.

Silver Lining #4

2010-08-30T13:19:00.006+08:00

Remember to catch Silver Lining tomorrow at 8.30pm on Channel 5!
Take note of the props! HAHA Like the 'Peking Po Po Pills' and 'Credit Card Bill'!! WAHAHA... my designs!

and because of this episode, I learnt how to play Pokemon cards which even the primary school kids now doesn't know how to play ok. =x

This was the previous ep's prop (holiday cruise brochure):

The Tertiary Meet Ups

2010-08-29T20:34:00.000+08:00

An outdated post... on 7 Aug, met up with the oktoLIVE! team! Like finally...!

Almost the whole team was there and it felt great being reunited again!
I really missed the okto times... the 5 + 1/2 months time which we all were cooped in a room in a corner that we can laugh and talk as loud as we want, sharing the happy and frustrating moments, all in that room. What a nice place to be in. And what a nice team to be in.

Desserts to end off the sweet meet-up!
We shall have another get together again soon!

Met up with poly mates... wa... it's been quite some time... 'cos I'm always unable to meet up with them due to my work schedule... and sometimes, time is just not enough... for different groups of friends, family, relatives... Weekends has become so precious.

Letting those fishies 'bite off' the dead skin on your legs was such an unique experience! It felt tingly... like the numb that you get when you press against your arms/legs for too long, and it felt ticklish when it goes underneath your foot!! Didn't want to take my foot out of the water... Wahaha... feel like trying it again, but maybe at some other cheaper places.

The funniest thing was when we were outside observing other people doing the 'fishy' treament, one auntie commented, "Ah, Yi Jiak Buay Ba Eh Meh?" (Ah, those fishes won't get full?) The immediate reaction from me and Flora was burst out laughing. LOL Totally. HAHAHAHAHA!!~ It was a innocent yet hilarious comment... aunties... really are funny people that adds some humourous moments to our lives.

The Silvers!

2010-08-24T20:12:00.003+08:00

Remember to catch Silver Lining @ 8.30pm on Channel 5 later!

And congrats to Isabelle Li for winning Singapore a Silver Medal in the YOG Table Tennis Women's Singles Match yesterday! Also YAY to their (Isabelle Li and Clarence Chew) win for the opening match for the Mixed Team! JIA YOU!

Youth Olympic Games (Soccer)

2010-08-22T22:58:00.007+08:00

Just wanna say, Singapore has got potential young soccer players as seen from the YOG match earlier on, and you guys did great. It's just too bad that you guys can't or even bring yourselves to act, to act in a SPORTS EVENT, like your opponents, although they acted very and really badly.

Don't be disheartened.

They may have won the match, but they have totally lost everything in every other aspect.
Especially losing sportsmanship. Which equates to nothing even if you won.
Winning the medal is but a physical object, what you have to win is also the grace and everyone's respect and well wishes.
Everyone who are clear minded knows who are the real winners.

Keep up with the sportsmanship.

Go Team Singapore!

Drama mama

2010-08-21T18:38:00.001+08:00

Woo! Been chasing dramas online recently...

Watched the much praised Hong Kong drama 宫心计... it's sooooo GOOD!! The casts (米雪, 关菊英, 佘诗曼, 杨怡, 陈豪, 郑嘉颖) are superb from top to toe and inside out! Story is very pacy, touching and could intrigue your emotion every time! A must-watch!

Shall catch 巾帼枭雄 soon. But there's only Mandarin version. I want Cantonese version!

Not forgetting our local drama, 最火搭档 (Unriddle) is one that you should not miss if you have been skipping others (like me), 'cos it's one of those few good ones in a year that we get to see!
瑞恩 has always been one potential actress among the younger generation of local artistes.
Even when I work afternoon shift and have no choice but to miss it, I will still try to catch it the very next day on xinmsn.com!

Silver LIning premiers tonight!

2010-08-10T14:50:00.001+08:00

Silver Lining premieres tonight @ 8.30pm on Channel 5!
(Also available on HD5)

So stuck

2010-08-09T01:00:00.003+08:00

I want to show that I can.
And I will show that I can.
Mark mine and eat yours.

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That aside,

Happy Birthday Singapore!

Silver Lining

2010-08-05T18:00:00.001+08:00

Remember I was involved in this production months back? Well now the drama is completed and ready to be screened on your TVs soon!

Silver Lining debut on 10 Aug, Tue @ 8.30pm on Channel 5!
Do support! :D

We have got HK actor Richard Ng (I bet more of you would recognise him from this poster!) as one of the leads in this drama too!

Doesn't this remind you of a movie? =x Cute!

We got this cute boy too, whom you all might also recognise him... 'cos he was the 小财神 (little god of fortune) who always holds the 千倍 (x1000) in Sheng Siong Show! HA!

Here's your cast (L to R): Rahimah (as Siti), Elaine (as Penelope), Indi (as Tony), En Lai (as Mark), Jun Sheng (as Joshua), Richard Ng (Peter), Rekha (as Sarah) & Abdullah (as Zainal)
Other cast includes Daisy (as Esmerelda) and Melvyn (as Kuan), Amy Cheng (as Margaret)

You won't see me appearing in the show of course (oh who knows?), don't switch channel once the show ends, 'cos you gotta keep a look out for the names running in the credits. =x Just watch every episode to see when it appears. HA!

Silver Lining gathering + KF's 21st!

2010-08-01T02:25:00.005+08:00

It was great, catching up with Silver Lining gang and having advance birthday celebration for KF yesterday!

Had great food, great KTV and great company!
And oh yes, Silver Lining will debut on 10 Aug, Tuesday @ 8.30pm on Channel 5!
So look out for it!

And here's our must-have polaroid shot every now and then when we have a special occasion!

Enjoyed the day with loads of laughters!

It's nice catching up again! It's been so long since all the 7 of us met together! July = 7, my birthday month. Wonderful month it has been.

Next week's schedule is not too bad! I shall start my first actual editing on Thursday! Hopefully won't change the programme that I'm doing. :D

Neoprint!

2010-07-28T23:15:00.003+08:00

It's been sooooo long since we last took neoprints together! It must have been at least 6 to 7 years! And it was a sudden urge (or you call it random-ness) to take it this time!
We didn't plan to go sing K but we did that day. Even if was only for a couple of hours. We like to do random stuff so you see.

HA! So check it out!

Check out the chinese text in this piece. HAHA!

At least we have an updated neoprint now instead of those 'hideous' ones taken ages back. =x

It was really great fun taking neoprints, trying to pose nicely within the time LIMIT and laughing at the pictures taken!! Then decorating it was a challenge 'cos it's all in Japanese, we could only figure our way out through the few chinese characters they had within the whole load of Japanese characters!

But trust me. It's damn fun. HAHAHA!!

Singapore Garden Festival 2010

2010-07-20T22:30:00.000+08:00

It's been long since I had such a display of nature shots in my blog. HA!
So here's it! Some of the photos that I took at this year's SGF (visited on Sunday)!
Pretty flowers pleasing to the eyes!

If you want to make a trip there, do hurry up 'cos it will end on 22 July, Thursday! Tix are sold @ the venue (Suntec Convention Centre) itself!
(P.S: NTUC members got discount. =x)

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

Shot 4

Shot 5

Shot 6

Shot 7

Shot 8

Shot 9

Shot 10

Shot 11

Shot 12

Shot 13

The scaled-down feature of the various landscapes
(Don't they look real here?)

Shot 14

Shot 15

Shot 16

Shot 17

Shot 18

Shot 19

Shot 20

Shot 21

Try growing your plants in some decorated tyres too!

Shot 22

Shot 23

Shot 24

Shot 25

Shot 26

Shot 27

Shot 28

Shot 29

Shot 30

Look at that lush green plants!

Shot 31

Shot 32

A flowery home!

Shot 33

Mum and I

Me and the 2 friendly SGF staffs. "Eh, don't they look familiar?" =x

Hope the flower power had cheer you up!
Also, do tell me which is your favourite shot!
(If you have one, that is. =x *Erherm* Last 2 pictures not included.)

It's been 3 years

2010-07-07T23:15:00.003+08:00

Woo! It's this date again!
I've managed this blog for 3 years now! And using the same old email I've been using for the past decade! HAHA Embarrassing email domain. Don't ask and don't reveal hor. I've got a more proper one that I can use for any ocassion now.

I lost my ezlink card like 4 days ago. Hai. No news about it 'cos it's an adult ezlink card and anyone can just use it. I've still got like $40+ value in it!! I only top it up a day/two before I lost it. ZZZ. I seldom lose my things! Guess it slipped out of my pocket when I moved out from my seat to alight. Haiyah.

The person who took my card and happily tapping in and out for transport now... you ar. You be careful. Hmph.

Shall go sleep now and wake up to watch World Cup match later!

Oh and if you all have noticed, I've removed the tagboard, 'cos I want you all to leave comments via the comment box for the respective blog post so that I can still see those comments when I look back at these blog posts!

It's the 21st!

2010-07-05T23:55:00.004+08:00

First, thanks for all the well wishes from everyone, everywhere! Thank U all so much.
Heartfelt appreciation. :D

My first birthday present for my 21st birthday! - From Mummy!

Went K singing with Poly mates. Great that they 'gave face' and came when I invited them. Haha. Thank U all!

They picked a Birthday Song while I was away and dedicated to me when I was back! I was surprised! HA! 'cos I had been staring at the screen but didn't notice that the words 'next song... Happy Birthday' are scrolling on top. =x They must have a hard time trying to divert my attention. hahaha..

I really didn't expect them to get me a present! And what's more is that it's a polaroid!! And coincidence starts from here!

As the K session could only last for 3hours due to a full booking, we went on for bowling!

Finally saw Aqmar's botak head! HAHA!

Group pic!

And next up was dinner on the same day, but with my childhood mates!

It has been at least a decade since we know each other!
Dinner @ Yokozuna (Liang Seah Place)

This was me, trying to act 'surprised' that I didn't know what the present was... And yes, it was a polaroid as well! It's the exact same model, same colour some more! LOL Great minds think alike.

PS: To my poly mates and jie meis, would you all mind if I sell one of it away and get maybe another lomo camera or something? Oh, but I'd better go register the warranty first... hoho.

Another camera! HA! My birthday card made by PS and written by everyone else. :D

Everyone just couldn't resist taking a picture with the huge 'camera'!

Ahh... Here comes the crux. Sashimi platter! YUMMY!~

Beef hotplate!

It has to be dipped in raw egg yolk... wooo!~

The traditional Cha Soba! (Not Cha Xio Ba~!)

This one is a must-try! Tataki Tuna! 1/4 cooked tuna, still feels warm when you put it into your mouth, and the texture is smooth and just melts in your mouth!

All in all, the standard of the food are rather good. Just that you will feel like you are in Japan 'cos the waitresses seem to understand/don't understand what you are talking about. HAHA.
And be prepared to take off your shoes when you go into the seats, or even have to go to the extent of climbing on the seats with your socks/bare foot on.

But for those with 'Hong Kong feet', don't worry because it's those beside you that are worrying. =x

This birthday cake was a surprise too 'cos I didn't expect it coming! I thought KF was merely asking the waitress to clear the table so that we have more space to relax and sit around to chit chat awhile... but ok, come to think of it, KF had been asking me what was the restaurant name, what time was it booked... I had a little suspicion at first but in the end let my guards down when we are there and just eating as per normal.

Haha, and it was no wonder KF was telling me that PB couldn't find the way to the restaurant, then I was thinking why don't meet me at a place first then we go together... so they had it all planned out.

Thanks Jie Meis for the pleasant surprise! :D

Trying to make green tea ice on the dry ice...

Don't bother to zoom in on the tiny neoprint on the card ok, I won't post up the enlarged version 'cos it's those type of hideous pictures that you took ages ago and feel like burning it! But it will provide good entertainment if you feel down. WAHAHA

Just had to test the polaroid out! I haven't tried using it'cos every photo has me in it and it's others taking the pictures!

How retro! NICE!~ Absolutely superb for close ups!

It's a pity that HP couldn't join us 'cos she's in the army. Yes. Army. You saw it right. Female friend going to army.

Then next up was dessert. Not very special. So won't elaborate much here.

Sunday... visited the Marina Barrage with Mum and Dad.

Then had my sumptuous seafood dinner!

Don't know where Mummy was looking at. -.-! One second *SNAP* and that's it. Out comes the photo!

Flora gave me this 'special cake' today! HAHA! Cute toothpick pasted with a hand-drawn 'fire' to mimick a candle!

Tonight's birthday cake! So pretty! Dad bought it! His present for me was $$, haha! Which I intend to get a new phone. Waiting for iPhone 4G!

And so it has been consecutive days of celebration! Yipee!

I hope everyone will have happy memories especially on this date, not just this year, but every year!

And here ends My 21st Birthday Celebration!

Happy Birthday Kym!

2010-07-01T22:00:00.002+08:00

No matter what... on this date, still want to wish..

Happy Birthday to my idol ah jie Kym!

Fated

2010-06-28T19:39:00.002+08:00

Oh my goodness.
It is fated.

If I didn't forget to buy season parking, I wouldn't have need to go to HDB office.
If I didn't go HDB office, I wouldn't have thought that it would on my way to deposit money at UOB.
If I didn't deposit at UOB, I wouldn't have met the banker who introduced me to some investment plan.
If I didn't accept the investment plan, I wouldn't have left my IC there.
If I didn't left my IC there, the banker wouldn't have called to say he forgot to return to me.
If he didn't forget to return to me, I wouldn't have walked back.
If I didn't walk back, I wouldn't have met the SHF person.
If I didn't meet the SHF person, I wouldn't have made that monthly donation.

Oh my goodness.
See how it is all fated.
And they are all from Mass Comm. How coincidental. How wonderful. How... just how did it all happened...? Just before my 21st?

Oh well. I need to seriously consider the investment plan again. The more I think of it the more I don't feel the returns are actually that good. Hmm.

My Mummy...

2010-06-26T11:53:00.003+08:00

Was watching New Adventures of Wisley on Channel 8 yesterday... and the following conversation happened:

Mum: 他(Wisley's clone)是外星人啊?
Me: 不是，他是复制人
Mum: Har? 他不是人啊?
Me: *burst out a slight laughter* 他是‘复制人’，不是‘不是人’...
Mum: Orh...

A few minutes later...
Mum: 这个是谁?(什么名字?)
Me: 陈丽贞... Aiyo, 你每次看每次问leh, 跟你见这么多次她是陈丽贞陈丽贞liao...
Mum: Orh...
Me: Ah.
Mum: 那个上次破产那个har?
Me: *burst out slight laughter again* 那个是郑秀珍lah~...

A few seconds later, I cannot tahan, reminded of the conversation, burst out laughing again. LOL

Video editing

2010-06-25T23:36:00.004+08:00

Editing can be such a fulfilling job.
Piecing up, adding stuff to complement each other. It can be such wonders.
It's like magic. But a pity many people don't know that such magic happens behind the scenes.
Haha!

I'm beginning to enjoy this.

Walk walk

2010-06-21T10:15:00.000+08:00

Haiyah. Angry. Didn't bring my camera 'cos thought I've already taken pictures the other time walking the same park...

Saw red dragonfly! I've never seen one before though heard before in songs like 紅蜻蜓! (Ok, say I'm mountain tortoise... but how many of you have seen it before??)

The monkey looks very cute when he is eating! Some were quite fierce though, tried to 'attack' some passer-bys...

First time Ice Skating!

2010-06-12T20:25:00.001+08:00

'Brunch' @ Cafe Cartel first!

Here's your pro skaters! =x

Felt like a baby learning to walk at first... all of us held tightly to the side... hahaha...

After grasping the momentum, it does somehow felt like roller blading, except this is on frictionless ground...

Ok, this is a fail attempt to form the heart shape... my fault. Too short lah have to accomodate to PS's hands distance!!

My legs are S-O-R-E wearing those skates... the rest too!

Oh well, at the end of the day... still not very good at it =/ But I realise one thing, if you are gonna fall, just struggle as much as possible to stand up right again, you won't fall ok! =x I didn't fall although I had quite some almost-falling moments. *so embarrasing* (OH. We were at Bishan and found out that Aunty Lucy would be there too... so PS and I went to see. HAHA!)

And the skates are really S-M-E-L-L-Y spelled in CAPS!!

Just laugh

2010-06-01T21:48:00.000+08:00

Almost died laughing when trying out on Avid with the raw clips. HAHAHAHA!~ I'm so looking forward to the show!

Check out Bryan's blog 'bout his trip to Sri Lanka!

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Watched Don't Forget The Lyrics on Ch 8 just now... omg. *Laugh!!* I watched them sang during the recording, and I watched it again on TV, it's just as entertaining as though I'm watching it the first time!! HAHAHA~ Totally LOL.
*Applause for the great entertainers* They are just so naturally funny! =x

Debut episode of the show is a huge success because of Bryan, Kym & Yifong! ^^

Nightmare - Killer 'Mummy'

2010-05-31T19:19:00.001+08:00

I had a nightmare yesterday.
It seemed like it lasted very long!

It went like that, there was someone who is trying to kill me. (-.-!!) and that person is very weird, dressed like a Mummy (those toilet paper wrapped around the whole body kind)

and kept chasing after me with a weapon in his hands.

I just kept running and hiding from him, then there were also some people whom I'm trying to protect also, I don't know who, but just kept asking them to hide here or there...
There were a few moments when I was so close to the Mummy and I just tried to run away from him!!

And finally when I ran out of the place (I think it was a shopping mall), I wanted to go take a taxi,

when I open the door, I see a friend inside (one of whom I was trying to protect earlier on, I don't know the face, but in my dream it seems like it was someone I know), he kept gesturing me to come into the taxi... but somehow I had a gut feeling that this person is actually the Mummy (he transformed into the look of the friend), then I just rejected, close the door and kept running and running!! I don't even know where I was running to.

Then the Mummy called me. (Like why the hell would I want to pick up the phone right?) But I picked it up, he told me that he is reaching my house, kept asking me where do I live. I decided to lie to him and told him I live at block 214, unit no. #06-77 (Kang Tao Li [hokkien] ok, HAHAHA I don't why that no. also) so that he won't bother me. And he kept probing about where am I... (I think he wanted to get something from my house)

I kept running and during my run I met my brother but I was too frantic to tell him what happened so I just went past him and try to get a cab... then I was pondering whether to go home, and I decided to. When I reach, I went to the coffeeshop and hide there to see where he exactly was... then I ran to the nearest phone booth

(which neighbourhood has phone booth you tell me? -.-) and made a call to the police

(Tsk. Got handphone right why use phone booth),

I kept squeezing myself as much as possible in the phone booth so that I couldn't be seen even if the Mummy is trying to look for me in the area...

Then... that's about it. I woke up. And totally remember what happen in my ~~dream~~ nightmare!! I didn't watch any horror show before I go to sleep ok, I was watching variety show. I think it was the scary indian man assault woman incident yesterday at my block that affected me.

But ok, the nightmare sounds ridiculous and kinda hilarious. HAHA I just had to jot it down. =x

'Sports Day'!

2010-05-29T16:12:00.001+08:00

Played badminton in the morning with Sam, Dex, Wals and 'Leen. Left before Jov woke up from her 'coma' and came to join in for badminton also haha

Then went bowling in the afternoon with PS, KF and PB!

Just the place which I need to be at after being in the hot sun for badminton!!

Bowling is great but the price is a little steep~ It has risen since the time which I last played there... erm, 3 - 4 years ago? HA! Should go during off-peak hours...

WAHAHA look at the names we gave ourselves during the game! =x We kept changing name to see if it works to make our scores better, and apparently Hontel works best for PS! We got a cheer for KF 'cos there was a song playing there and we made that her cheer! Haha don't know if I will get into trouble for saying the cheer here, so better not do it. Speaking about Freedom of Speech. Hmm.

Then went for BBQ at night at cousin's place. What a marathon! But I'm very satisfied and happy with being able to meet up different groups of people although I'm aching all over now... feels like an old woman... this is what happens when you don't exercise for... er... a long long time. HA!

Oh weekends come back to me!

2010-05-22T00:21:00.000+08:00

Finally... I've got my weekends F-R-E-E after 2 months!!
WOOHOO!!
Got the job as a video editor. :) Having able to learn something new is something to look forward to.

Collected Jay's newest album - 跨時代.

Felt that his slow songs in this album are nicer... I like 烟花易冷, 免费教学录像带 (esp. this one), 爱的飞行日记, 自导自演 and 超人不会飞 (this give the tinge of sadness deep within the emotion of a 超人...)
好久不见 and 我落泪.情绪零碎 are not too bad too. I'm listing almost the whole album already... =x

His songs are those that needs to be listened to a few more times than you'll start to take your pick on your favourites...
Overall: Worth the buy!

Alright, shall enjoy my break before I embark on the working life again!
Jie Meis! Let's meet up!

Graduation!

2010-05-19T01:29:00.000+08:00

*Updated @ 8:30pm, 20 May 2010

Papa took this photo! So clear right! Wahaha *HAPPY*
And that's our CASS director, the ever-smiling and nice Mrs Lam. :)

Hehe. I made Papa & Mummy wore my graduation robe. See! Doesn't he look like a professor? =x

And this is the POST-GRADUATION PARTY!

More pictures up on Facebook, inconvenient to post up here haha...

Taking the first train in the morning can be such an eye-opener as well.

SO MANY PEOPLE on the train at NEL! It's crowded like a train that you would see when you are at Orchard station!

Then waa... when you step out to alight at Outram, you better not stop your feet and just keep walking if not you'll get pushed and shoved because EVERYONE, and I mean E-V-E-R-Y ok, is rushing! The escalator was obviously too slow for them that they are all climbing up. Their pacing are so fast that you would feel that they are like tapes/DVDs running on fast forward mode.

Then when they are in the train, 95% of those who are in their seats are napping/sleeping...

Sometimes when my call time is 7am and travelling on my Papa's vehicle at 6am+, I can see that there are a lot of vehicles travelling on the road already... busy Singaporean lifestyle.

That's city life for us.

We don't even see the sunrise when we start the day.

Mini wrap!

2010-05-18T13:57:00.000+08:00

Oh yes yes! I've finished my last shoot on Sunday! HOHO
It's a wrap for our team!

It was like a mini wrap party when all 3 teams gathered at the 'Gan's' house on Sunday... while the other team was shooting, the rest of us were either surfing net, watching TV or playing PS2 HAHA and we've even got FREE LUNCH from JunSheng didi!!

He treated all of us to Pizzas!! How sweet right?! =x It was initially a deal between only DOP Sani and him, but later on we all start to 'grumble' we don't get a treat... then he agreed to treat all of us. HAHA so cute lah he~

And this was yesterday's big scene with all the main casts, directors and ADs on set!

Laughters!

2010-05-14T11:35:00.002+08:00

Absolutely love this combination!
New City Beat 2! Much to look forward to!
Begins 4 June, Fridays @ 8.30pm

It seemed like this time round they won't be dressing in wacky outfits!
Ahh... but it will be only half an hour... :(
And OH YES! Don't Forget The Lyrics will be aired on 1 June, Tuesdays @ 8pm! Do look out for the episode with them!

BLACK ROSE rocks!! My Tuesdays are so great because of the show! Enjoy it sooo much!
Below are screenshots of the classic LOL jokes in the show~ hahaha go watch it (available on xinmsn.com or go youtube search)! Confirm you'll LAUGH like nobody's business!

'Tao Jing Ying' was mentioning about 'someone' who kept hugging Mark Zhao during Star Awards, then Kym being the one acting as 'Li Jing' asked discreetly "Is it me?" (as in Li Jing) then say "I wasn't there that night" (as herself) HAHAHA!!

It's really hilarious when they try to use another persona to say something about themselves then laugh at it, then sometimes they would switch back to their own personality! Hahahaha...!! They are really people who dare to say and not afraid of people laughing at them! It's high class humour!

Dennis gave an example of how Chen Xiu Li joked about why the need to open all the windows when the aeroplane is landing... Good one man!

MUAHAHA. Variety shows keep me alive!